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We Want the Colonels (1973)

We Want the Colonels (1973)

Comedy
Release Date: 1973, March 2
Directors: Mario Monicelli
Countries: Italy
Production: Dean Film
Cast: Gianni Solaro, Pietro Tordi, Ugo Tognazzi, Alberto Postorino, Giuseppe Maffioli, Francesco Anniballi, Antonino Faà di Bruno, Mauro Misul, Claude Dauphin, François Périer, Mario Frera, Lino Puglisi

Overview:

Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup d'Etat (Golpe). Something goes wrong and the Interior Minister (Home Secretary) Mr. Li Masi (Lino Pugliesi) got the all information about the attempted Golpe. So the Minister organizes a counter-Golpe. Tritoni desperately, to save his project, kidnaps the Italian Republic President (Claude Dauphin) that immediately dies for heartache. Now Minister Mr. Li Masi is free to lay down the law to the rest of the country, realizing basically the actual Golpe! Tritoni surrenders and will spend rest of his time trying to sell his ideas about managing Golpe in Africa!

Keywords:

satire fascism politics coup d'etat military coup